Welcome to the 2025-26 edition of Smash or Pass, in which we examine potential free agent and trade targets to determine whether the Red Sox should pursue them and what it would take to land them. After taking a look at an intriguing young arm earlier this week, we now look for a middle of the order bat.

Who is he and where does he come from?

He’s 30-year-old Peter Morgan Alonso, and he grew up in Tampa, Florida as the descendant of refugees who fled to the United States during the Spanish Civil War. Given that Luis Tiant was frequently and famously linked to The Old Man And The Sea, Alonso would be the second Red Sox player to be tangentially related to one of Hemingway’s four major novels. Now we just need a second baseman who survived the retreat at Caporetto and a number two starter

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